Elementary Particles as Gates for Universal Quantum Computation

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel framework where elementary particles, modeled as braids, function as quantum gates enabling universal quantum computation, linking fundamental physics with quantum information processing.

Contribution

It introduces a mapping between Standard Model fermions and quantum gates, providing a physical realization of the Computational Universe Hypothesis within particle physics.

Findings

Fermions modeled as braids can serve as quantum gates.

Elementary particles can implement universal quantum computation.

A new physical framework links particles to quantum computational networks.

Abstract

It is shown that there exists a mapping between the fermions of the Standard Model (SM) represented as braids in the Bilson-Thompson model, and a set of gates which can perform Universal Quantum Computation (UQC). This leads us to conjecture that the "Computational Universe Hypothesis" (CUH) can be given a concrete implementation in a new physical framework where elementary particles and the gauge bosons (which intermediate interactions between fermions) are interpreted as the components of a quantum computational network, with the particles serving as quantum computational gates and the gauge fields as the information carrying entities.